- (literary) to make it so; to dictate
- bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly
- to lean against or on; to stand by the side of; to come near to; to depend on; to trust; to fuck (vulgar); traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)
- lottery ticket
- to live; life; livelihood
- firstly, ...
- secondly, ...
- pedantic; trite; inflexible; adherence to old ideas
- scholar; intellectual; egghead
- to learn; to study; to imitate; science; -ology
- to hold in one's arms; to embrace
- fitted with
- whole; all
- familial property; belongings
- aimless; at random
- tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten
- (coll.) to hold; to grip; to grasp
- to hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control; classifier: a handful
- term; terminology
- difficult to understand; cryptic
- abstruse; profound mystery; the mysteries of the universe
- nowadays; now
- heaven and earth; world; scope; field of activity
- supernatural beings
- right hand; right-hand side
- root system
- 红 Hóng: 红 Hong2: surname Hong红 gōng: 红 gong1: used in 女紅|女红[nu : 3 gong1]红 hóng: 红 hong2: red; popular; revolutionary; bonus
- rope; CL:根[gen1]
- to go out; to go away (on a trip etc)
- to recall; to think of; to call to mind
- 当年 dāng nián: 当年 dang1 nian2: in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life当年 dàng nián: 当年 dang4 nian2: that very same year
- to pass a university entrance exam
- inside; within
- dull gray; gloomy; dejected; crestfallen; with one's tail between one's legs
- lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom); fig. to follow a path that led to failure in the past; to repeat a disastrous mistake
- void; hollow; empty
- one time (all the way through); once through
- not bad; pretty good; fortunately; luckily
- to forget
- ink; CL:瓶[ping2]
- scholar; intellectual
- carriage; CL:節|节[jie2]
- shape and color; appearance; facial expression